Light

The night has a thousand eyes,

And the day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies

With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,

And the heart but one;

Yet the life of a whole life dies

When love is done.

-       F. W. Bourdillon[1]

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[1] A late Victorian English poet from Buddington, Sussex, England, Francis William Bourdillon was born in 1852. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, and acted as tutor to the Prince and the Princess Christian at Cumberland Lodge. He published 13 volumes of poems from 1878 to 1921. Of the nearly 500 poems he wrote, one secured his fame: the above-quoted The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Bourdillon also did scholarly editing of poems and chronicles from Old French. His edition and translation of Aucassin & Nicolette came out in 1887. In 1906 the Bibliographical Society published his study, The Early Editions of the Roman de la Rose. He died in 1921.  (Source: Representative Poetry Online – rpo.library.utoronto.ca)